Expanding upon her Pre-Pointe Primer series, Angeline helps you introduce important information and make a big event out of something which is extremely important to your students with her breakdown for a full day’s workshop for your pre-pointe students.
Teaching
What Makes A Teacher Great?
Great dance teachers love dance, honor their art, respect you enough to expect of you, don’t sacrifice quality for anything, encourage you, inspire you… and a lot more. See what our friends and fellow bloggers have to say about great teachers in our sharing circle and add your own ideas!
How’s Your Pitch? Using The Power of Your Voice
Tone of voice and the way you use your voice when you teach is so important! If you had no props or music could you still teach a class? Here are four ways Maria uses her voice with her preschool-aged students and when to incorporate each one.
How To Teach Your Students To Walk In Pointe Shoes
Angeline helps amateurish dancers look brilliant on stage with attention on how to walk elegantly in ballet, specifically in pointe shoes. She breaks down the Classical Walk and walking en 3/4 Pointe, provides mistakes to watch for, and troubleshooting tips.
Dancer Speak: Re-Thinking How We Talk About Dance
When it comes to talking about dance, there are plenty of possibilities. Sometimes using “real-life” synonyms to the “dancer speak” that we are accustomed to allows kids to see how big ideas relate from discipline to discipline. Dance in the public schools provides an outlet for kids to express themselves but also a way to […]
Saut de What? Avoid Terminology Wars With Your Students
What to do when a convention teacher uses different terminology that you use in your dance classes and your students question you. Also, what is the correct term for a developpé leap? Do you call it a saut de chat?
